This is too simplistic. Readily available to who? Even if guns are outlawed

here
today, the criminals will still have ready access to guns to their hearts desire,
there are so many squirreled away. Given this, and since it has already been
conclusively proven that crime does in fact go down when guns are readily available
and can be carried concealed by law abiding citizens, then I can say, ok. A telling
fact is that Prof. John Lott's original study was done under the employ of Handgun
Control Inc, until his results showed the opposite of what HCI wanted him to prove.
HCI took him to court to prevent him from attaching their name in any way to the
study, and despite the fact that his study covers the largest sample of crime data
in history (all FBI crime stats from 1979 to 1995), the gun crime researchers who
are invested in the gun control cause insist on calling his study 'flawed'.